(From Howard Gabe, Brazil, September and October 2007)
Someday I look forward to being able to purchase and download music from the UK over the internet The record companies have been quick to criticise all the mp3 pirating that is going on, but are missing a great new opportunity for mass marketing. People have changed their buying habits and now download their music, and the bought CD is gradually on the way out. I live in a city of 350,000 souls, but I can't but my desired choice of jazz or classical music here. The global market for downloading music has to be enormous, but is largely ignored. It needs to be a low margin market, but the volume will be so much larger in comparison. There really needs to be a public forum for people to vent their anger and concern with the record companies; its been rather one sided until now. That having been said, there probably is one already, or more than one, but I am not aware of a site and rarely get involved in these 'chat rooms' anyway and prefer the real world to the virtual, imaginary one!
(From Paul Adams, Lake Records, October 2007)
The problem as far as we are concerned is simple: we only licence the material and the licence doesn't cover download. Universal will have to do it and I very much doubt they ever will. The Sandy Brown material I own we are looking into providing download facilities BUT the amount of work it involves for what is very little return might prohibit it at this stage.
(From Howard Gabe, Brazil, September 2007)
Is there a website where I can buy and download Sandy Brown's music? I have a lot of his tracks on disc or as mp3's, but I have been looking for tunes like Yaknik and Portrait of Willy Best that I have not been able to find anywhere. Buying CD's on the internet and having them shipped over can be very expensive because the post office here will charge me import duty equal to what I originally paid. That's not much of a deal. The record companies have been quick to criticise all the mp3 pirating that is going on, but are missing a great new opportunity for mass marketing. People have changed their buying habits and now download their music, and the bought CD is gradually on the way out. I live in a city of 350,000 souls, but I can't buy my desired choice of jazz or classical music here. The global market for downloading music has been enormous, but is being largely ignored. It needs to be a low margin market, but the volume will be so much larger in comparison.